method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan

I read it at one point, Eric, that to prove that this really was non toxic. You actually drank it. Yeah, i so I was in London, you know, I love the British press, they're so sceptical. And she said is it you know, safe enough to drink. I was like, sure.

So we both took a shot at the toilet bowl cleaner. Okay. And then I immediately uh text Adam finally got back to me and was like hey, just drank the toil bowl cleaner. I'm gonna be okay. Right? From NPR? It's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

Guy Roz, and on today's show, how two friends in their mid-20s mixed up some household ingredients to make soap and detergent. and then took on and eventually outmaneuvered some of the Biggest companies in the world. Yeah. If you were looking to start a business in the late 1990s, you probably didn't have to spend a lot of time convincing friends and family that it was a good time to go into tech. This was the height of the dot com bubble, and

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